ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,486, issued on July 15, was assigned to MarathonNorco Aerospace (Waco, Texas).
"Retention device for a hold open rod" was invented by Jacob Anderson (Waco, Texas) and Benjamin Dyer (Waco, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hold open rod includes a tube configured to support a structure in a deployed configuration and the tube is further configured to have a stowed configuration. The tube includes a first end and a second end arranged at ends of a longitudinal axis of the tube. The hold open rod includes a retention device configured to hold the coupling device when the tube is in the stowed configuration. The coupling device is c...